just adopted how those ideas would come together. the interchange and the third street light rail and the buses all beating in. we are very active in the candlestick at brisbane project. it is connecting to the new geneva and the brt. that project we hope will be done and coordinating on the geneva brt initiative, which is an initiative across the by- county partnership. the authority board approved after we had applied for and received some grant funding -- this is a continuation of our transportation effort in the bay area. this will be to help some of

the organizations serving be used and general community members to get from those services and programs. and in particular, general vehicle sharing and collaboration there. the department of health will come forward with a potential pilot for the y and other coordination for transportation in the heels of an area. -- in the hell's own area. the oakdale study will be presented in the may/june cycle, along with bridge replacement. i will turn it over to maria at this point and then come back to speak to that. i want to thank commissioner cohen for being such a leader with both our board and the caltrans board for such a good process and outcome. excuse me, there's one more i

will be doing. the cesar chavez community parks plan and bike lane our initiatives we have been assisting in and have funding roles in. the first one with the planning department to help them envision the eastern end, how to improve bicycle and pedestrian connections while also connecting truck traffic. that study has concluded and will be brought to the commission in may. in terms of the bike lanes, there have been a lot of -- has been a lot of coordination. primarily to try to balance the needs of the general traffic and truck traffic and turning

movements in this critical location. >> quickly, to a few of the pedestrian safety projects going on in his district, we have 15- mile per hour zones in this area near schools. the visibility is going well. we have been looking at crosswalks and potentially eliminating parking spaces near them to improve visibility for pedestrians crossing the street. this connects to public housing at the top of the hill. the picture you can see, it desperately needs improvement. construction should start in july. that is one of the very few sources of funding where we can improve the stairway. that is always a cause for celebration. this is probably the first plan to get started, but could get influenced by the new effort to

reach envision how the traffic will be coming forward. >> ms. lombard, i think commissioner cohen had a question. >> thank you, actually. you answered it. it was related to the stairway improvement plans. i want you to talk about the partnership, but you did. the >> thank you. >> that just reminded me that mta will be contacting you very soon about coping. the efforts are just getting underway now. there is also a handout that was included in the packet. this is the same kind of traffic projects going on city- wide. the same projects have been approved and the -- just like we lost it -- we talk about lots

summer there are various initiatives. we also have bayview north and south. mta does the general improvements first and any move on to the next step, getting progressively more significant improvements until yet achieved what the goals are. a lot going on with bicycles in district 10. this photo shows a project currently under way with a bike lane on a short period -- on bayshore. that will run from paul avenue to silver avenue. this is the car away and construction truck. -- the cargo plane under construction. we see construction on 16th and

ri street. -- rhode island street. >> commissioner cohen. >> could we go back to the last slide? we kind of rushed over this one. we talked about cargo way, the cycle track. maybe you could talk about men and what is adding to the delaet curator -- to the delay. >> we are basically preparing and restriking -- restriking -- restriping the bicycle lanes citywide. a few items included in its scope have been done with other funding, but basically the funds have just been sitting there. the we have been waiting for the mta bus and new list of

facilities -- to give us a new list of facilities. there is a much greater need for restriking -- restriping the lanes. >> and you know what the holdup is on receiving the list of the revised scope from the mta? >> -- why don't you have it already? >> i can ask. >> as maria mentioned, with the injunction of the priorities shifting through the 40 + projects that we had on the books, we have made significant progress in implementing those projects. and we are updating the bike maintenance as we speak. we plan to have that done in a month or so. >> i would also like to acknowledge that our office received numerous females thanking us for the bike lanes on cesar chavez.

since you are close by, i wanted to pass that on. kudos. you can continue. >> ms. lombardo? >> one of the project that we alerted the supervisor to was a signal upgrade. it is funded by a highway safety improvement program grant. they got the paperwork in, but a day before the deadline. which is fine. we think the funds will stay there, but it is kind of like filing your taxes late. that means you have to enter the queue for caltrans to process it. and caltrans will do their best, but we are just keeping an eye on it. and died to also understand mta will become a year in july for a matching -- i also understand mta will be coming here in july

for a matching funds the transition. this is another project we have flag here. this is the car anyway -- harney way project improvement. this particular scope is funded by an old federal earmarked. the project scope is expanding from four lanes to six lanes and include bicycle and pedestrian improvements and accommodates future cost rapid trend -- bus and rapid transit. everybody is trying to call back all of the grants that are out there. this grant is currently not

obligated. i know there are problems with iraq because of the department of public works. -- with your marks because of the department of public works. i know that frank from the department of public works and also the mayor's office are here if there are questions about this project pierpont -- this project. and caltrain, most of the prop k funds go toward state repair. he might have -- you might have relied on caltrain to do glorious things like replacing light bulbs at the station. there are other things going on, particularly with the folks in district 10. the bridge and road replacement project has potential plans for future oakdale construction.

grex this is the first of two bridges in the area -- >> this is the first of two bridges in the area. they're both about 100 years old and they both do need to be replaced. we have been holding public workshops and will continue to do so until we come back to the authority for potential policy decision in june regarding how that bridge should be replaced. we would be at the staff level compared -- preparing a connector road with that. the graphic on the right would allow folks to cross at gerald. or replacing bridge no. 2 for $25 million. the problem with that option is that it precludes the station

from being built without having to rebuild that bridge, which would add another at several tens of millions of dollars. and the third option would be a wider bridge, but that would be $35 million and really have $25 million in place. we will be at the southeast community facility tonight. will be going to the bayview shipyard. we will summarize that input in the next month or so. >> commissioner cohen. >> thank you, mr. chair. i would be interested in hearing from mr. wells lawson. if you could just talk to us a little better about the grand -- the grant and how it relates to harney way. >> the grant, as ms. lombardo

said, was an earmarked that we received in 2009. we're using it as the first baby step for the candlestick point, part of the project approvals received in 2010. as everyone knows, in 2011, we have been sorting out and did suspension under ab26 the law that dissolves the redevelopment at the time. we have basically been on hold while trying to move forward with projects. now that we have resolved those issues, we're underway using the funds for these grants during the survey work that is required for the roadway widening. we have approved a conceptual plan and those transportation plans. we will be doing just the legal work around the acquisition of

the right of way and moving forward with those plans. >> thank you very much. it -- does that conclude the presentation? that concludes the presentation. colleagues, i hope you found the presentation very informative. our goal is not only to inform the individual members about what is happening in the individual districts, but throughout the city, and more important, to make sure that the members are aware of the various projects that are being funded in their neighborhoods and citywide. any member of the public like to speak on the presentations made by staff on the authority projects in district two and in district 10? >> as you stated, with the redistricting, as far as i know maybe from and sell for sure it

up to silver will come under district 9. -- maybe from manzel for sure and up to silver will come under district 9. we ought to be very careful with the bike lanes. six people have been killed in recent months. those doing the planning should be aware of this. that idea would be since we have perilous streets to san bruno, like gerard street, maybe some of the viking lanes can be transferred over there. -- the biking planes can be transferred over there. it is kind of done remote- control. but that is on them. but that is resulting from bicycle coalitions -- maybe we

had two, but we had a couple in castro, some on market street, and a couple in the financial district. in talking about the bicycle lanes, we need to keep in mind that as a result of the bicycle coalition. you can only do that if you are prudent and you do good design work. i travel a lot and i will travel again, go to europe. and i see a lot of changes in that design. we need to have some creativity here regarding the bicycle lanes. >> thank you very much. is there any member of the public who would like to speak?

seeing none, public comment is closed. item 13. >> this is a new information item. >> colleagues, any new items to introduce? any member of the public like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. please call item 14. >> public comment. >> this is an opportunity to comment on anything in the transportation authority jurisdiction, but nothing on the agenda. madam clerk, please call item 15. >> meeting adjournment. rex meeting adjourned. thank you very much. -- >> meeting adjourned. thank you very much.

>>. touring england was a time when robert as mentors were being challenged by a quickly growing middle-class. for endeavour's crew of new artists began to assert themselves, offering new definitions of the athletics of arts and beauty. over 180 objects of avant-garde design and art from the victorian england has been collected inside the legion of

honor snoot exhibition, it's the cold of the ec. -- the cult of beauty. >> there was this group of artists that were not only revolutionaries in their artistic expression but also in their personal lives and their interest in democratizing art in introducing beauty into the growing middle-class. >> one of the inspirations for the victorian avant-garde was the industrial revolution. quality household goods were now being mass-produced. artists responded by either creating elaborate unique court or by embracing technology and trying to share a beautiful creations with as many people as possible. >> william morris was in a difficult position, because he wanted the middle-class to be able to acquire really beautifully made objects.

but the piece is that he actually made, you know, took so much handcrafting that there were quite expensive. i think he would have been pleased to know that there are things like restoration hardware anne craig and bare all that tried to make available to the middle-class -- and crate and barrel that tried to make these things available to the middle class. >> over 60 lenders contributed art and craft to the exhibition. one of the partners is london's victoria and albert museum, which has been collecting the finest examples of victorian craft since queen victoria herself attended the groundbreaking ceremony. the artist of the victorian avant-garde believe that every object could contain an expression of beauty. the attention given when creating a towering sculpture should be the same as when creating a simple cottage gate. they embraced arts for arts own

sake. whether in the curl of a flower or a stray lot of unpin hair. surprisingly, sensuality returned to public view during the victorian era. albert moore and others were inspired by ancient greek sculptures and found new uses in modern times. >> many of these paintings are large. when you get close to them, they seem to wrap you in this luscious colors. there's a great sensuality to the paintings, even though there's nothing sexual going on in the pictures. the artists just took delight in luxurious fabrics and colors and beautiful women. >> symphony in white is a life- size portrait of the immense stress of james wisler. it is featured prominently in the exhibition. harmony in gray and green was an of socially judged as a

disagreeable presentation of a disagreeable young lady. the first public reaction of this series was so divisive that led to court proceedings. today, they hang in london's tate gallery. walking to the exhibition, you might be distracted by objects that seem to modern war appeared to be at least art deco era. forward thinking victorian artists emerged the economical ambitions of 18th-century cottage's style furniture with the asymmetrical design elements of japanese art that was introduced to london in 1862. >> so you come out with these very beautiful and sleek design worms that the artist combined -- a design forms. very modern. our visitors are really surprised that so many of the works at a very modern feel to them. >> they believe that no object

needed to be considered worthless or low class. each thing, existing in its own place, was the best thing for its place. and what first seems to be idle showiness, shows the richness of today and yesterday. >> it is exciting to have a project you have worked on for so long coming in know, come to your own museum. and museum curators are among the luckiest professionals, because we get to share with tens of thousands of people the things that give us enjoy and the things that explain to our visitors the relationship between art and society. art is not just a frivolous, you know, sidebar. it is a very important expression of culture and morals. this particular moment, the artists were interested in community.

>> san francisco is the exclusive american host for the cult of beauty exhibition. the legion of honor is website has more information about the artists and tips for planning your visit. learn more at the website. thank you for watching >> i have 2 job titles.

i'm manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. this building is multifaceted to say the very least it's a municipal building that operates the city and county of san francisco. this building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of san francisco in 1912. he didn't have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. construction began in april of 1913. in december 1915, the building was complete. it opened it's doors in january 1916.

>> it's a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. the building is built as a palace. not for a king or queen. it's built for all people. this building is beautiful art. those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, san francisco had an enormous french population. therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. >> jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that san francisco had to regain it's place in the world. he decided to have the tallest dome built in the united states. it's now stands 307 feet 6

inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the united states capital. >> you could spend days going around the building and finding something new. the embellishment, the carvings, it represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that san francisco is famous for. >> the wood you see in the board of supervisor's chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. interesting thing about the oak is there isn't anymore in the entire world. the floors in china was cleard and never replanted.

if you look up at the seceiling you would believe that's hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. there are no records about how many people worked on this building. the workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. and what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today.